Tom Bell continues his series on the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings with a post on Why Model the Rankings?:
I here explain why I reverse engineered them. In brief, I undertook to study the rankings for the same reasons that people study hurricanes, volcanoes, or the like: In awe-struck appreciation of the phenomenon’s power and in the hope that I might help innocents avoid disaster. Others might have different reasons for modeling the rankings, I grant. None, however, should expect to find a shortcut to the top.
Prior posts in Tom’s series:
